The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-16
PERSONAL.

Miss Rosr STREAToR, of Midway, Ala, is said
to be the belle Of the New South. She is
brunette, and at distance greatly resembles
Mrs Cleveland,
SENATOR SHERMAN does not appear to be tax
ing a very active interest in the Ohio campaign,
and this iact is causing some comment upon
both sides of the political fence in the Buckeye
State.
GEN. JOSEPH L. JOHNSTON has contributed
900 to the Lee monument fund of Richmond
Va. In a letter to the managers Of the fund he
deplores the fact that he cannot make his dona-
ton larger.
THE Duchess of Cumberland, sister of the
Princess Of Wales, who was put into an insane
covered her reason and will leave the insttu-
ton Saturday.
CHRIS BUCKLEY, the Democratic boss of San
Francisco, totally blind, and the bitterness of
political contests in that city may he inferred
from the fact that the Cdr0aicle constantly
speaks of him as ''the blind white devil
JAMES D. FISH, ex- President of the Marine
Bank. is said TO be of the most patient well
disciplined, aud accomplishing convcts in the
Auburn prison. His outside friends are MAX
ing herculean efforts to secure a Presidential
pardon.
Two young ladies of Guilford Eng, Miss
Staples and Miss Appeyarl, are on tour of
the New World They landed mt Halifax a fort
night ago, and are row in Detroit. Apart from
being preposSesSing IN appearance, they travel
EDWARD GOULD the young son of Jaw Gonld.
who characterized his debut in Wall street last
summer by clearing half million on Manhattan
stocks is now on tour of inspection of the
Missouri Pacific railroad. He is a director of
Western Union and on the board of Pacific
Mail.
GEN SHERIDAN is far from wealthy His in
come, salary and allowances are about Sl3 0)0 a
year and it costs for the maintenance OF his
home, family and official position tOur-tiflhS of
this sum, He Is also President of the Washing
ton Park Jockey Club, of Chicago, an unsalaried
Office
AFTER waiting thirty five years for Levi Graf
to make her his bride, Miss Mamie Waltz of
Frederick Md. has elOped with Capt. Alfred
Schiey. The aged couple are believed to be in
Baltimore Graft Is half crazed by what he
terms hissweetheart S frailty, and threatens to
commit suicide.
Mrs. RICHARD POINTER is dying from grief at
Toronto. Ont. She came out from Ireland last
week to Join her son. and arrived Just MS he was
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for
criminal assault She fell in SwoOn. and al
though revived she declines TO take food and
water, and the physicians say her death is only
the matter Of a couple of days.
MRS HoLnROoK of Woodstock, Conn, is a
lneai descendant OF Gen. Israel Putnam. She
has a number OF letters written by odd Put"
which show that he was o better soldier than
scholar She also owns the canteen he carried
through the revolutionary war. II ~ made of
straight wooden slaves, tightly looped at each
end. The canteen has capacity of three
pints.
Z. Ii. WALKER. for many years statistician Of
the New York Produce Exchange, has joined
the editorial staff of Bradstreefs, the we'll
known commercial and financial newspaper
published in New York, TO which he will give
his exclusive services. Mr.. Walker is PERHAPS
the best inforpied man in the country on the
statistics OF grain flour. provisions, live stock
and kindred lines. He is the author Of the only
complete records OF this Kind in the country,
and the inventor of the visible grain supply
statement
CONGRESSMAN CHARLEY RUSSELL, Of Connecti-
cut, few years ago was eking out his slender
purse at Yale by reporting for New Haven
newspaper, and he spent a number of years
afterward on a Worcester newspaper, where
the work was hard and the pay dubious The
paper bursted up and Russell quit. That
changed his luck. In three years or so he was
elected Sec, etary of State Of Connecticut. and
last fall was elected to Congress. A rich father
in.law who is a great politician, and his own
'0od looks and good nature brought him luck